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TO THE VOTERS IN STURBRIDGE?^ 



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Gentlemen* — You ma} - consider that I owe you some apology for 
appealing to your better judgment, from another attempted imposi- 
tion that I believe it my duty to warn you against. Knowing no motive 
why the inhabitants of my native Town should not regard me as'a sin- 
ner, sinners being vastly on the majority almost everywhere else, it 
may prove amusing, if not instructive, to the most choice selection 
among you to learn what a man you have every reason to suppose is an 
outsider has to say about it ; that is all the apology I shall make. 

The late Hon. Anson Bnrlingame designated the Hon. Henry Wilson 
as the beloved Senator of Massachusetts, and his supposed influence 
among laboring men was one important consideration in substituting 
Wilson for Colfax as candidate for Vice President in the recent Phila- 
delphia Convention. Here, where every man in health, whether rich 
or poor, perforins his six days' labor almost without exception, the nice 
distinction made between Wilson and Colfax may not be readily 
understood, especially as Colfax rests one great arm of his reputation 
upon the cold water movement and the other upon the Sunday school 
establishment; his lectures upon the two enterprises are considered 
unequalled ; what is more, he has been a Sunday school librarian, an 
office you once honored me with. I might not have tilled the situation, 
but for the peculiar attraction of the presence in that Sunday school 
of many of the most beautiful and accomplished young ladies I had 
ever met in this State. The generation of men now passing away 
will never allow themselves to question the accuracy of my judgment 
of those ladies. 

To a child, study and recitation is hard work. So long as you consider 
Sunday as the Sabbath, it is for you to determine whether your child- 
ren shall be exercised on that day over cunningly devised question 
books. 

Since my recent arrival here, a prominent officer in this Town has 
kindly handed me a speech of your beloved Senator, which he delivered 
himself of at Great Falls, New Hampshire, Feb. 24, 1872. I find it 
was printed at the Congressional Globe Office, Washington, and no 



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doubt at the public expense. The fact that copies are sent to this 
Town, designates it as a Campaign document, intended to influence 
your voters in the coming election for President. For me to take up 
and examine each of his points would make this document too long ; 
the expense of printing this cannot be thrown upon you. I will not 
attempt to follow him, or consider his arguments in the order he has 
arranged them ; neither will I use any language more indecent and un- 
becoming an Amerie:m writer than that indulged in by the Honorable 
Senator's firmest supporter through all these years, the. Honorable 
Horace Greeley, Avhose emphatic writing of the words, "You lie ! you 
villain, you lie !" was but the shadow of that substantial, .outspoken 
complaint that is said to have once troubled a whole army in Flanders. 
Wilson iys : 

i to-night ] rt it, and 1 le ion G< d's eat th can 

contrad hut from the year 1832, 

Willi! Lloyd Garrison and e : , lithful and 

. ' ' to the < ! < b 

I ■ d do - 

: ten and to lift i 

: i ever; 

pai tj h . 

on the side of privilege, the i ide of brutal, ign< 

degraded barbarism. Measured by the standards of the Philosophers 
and Statesmen of the ages, measured by the Law of the Living God, 
there has not lieen a moment when it (the Democratic party) was not 
clearly, plainly, distinctly, unqualifiedly wrong. It has been wrong 
and is wrong now. and I fear it will continue to be wrong." 

To make these expressions emphatic and strong, required time with 
Henry Wilson, the calumny here was calmly deliberated upon; lie 
knew he was writing a libel of the Ills! water; if his (Mime was mur- 
der, any jury would pronounce it in the first degree. 

Measured by the standards of the Philosophers and Statesmen 
of the ages, measured by the Law of the Living God, Americans 
have been right, every day and all the time, in resisting the 
efforts of William Lloyd Garrison, a notorious British Agent in 
America, and the whole nest of miserable traitors to God and man, 
who have clung like harnacles to him for forty years. Mi. Garrison 
has served his employers well, and they have substantially rewarded 
him. 1 hear he counts his riches in millions, yel his mission with 
us is noi wliolh a Buccess, the Greal Republic is not broken into 
lenl • as England expected it would be. The greatly enhanced 
value of British rice and cotton fields in India, where the laborer 
receives five cents a day and boards himself, is one rich mine 
England has secured, and its substantial profits will help in set- 



i tling the account of damages when America gives Britain a receipt in 
lull for meddling in her affairs. 

For years you have looked towards the South for Rebels, Traitors, 
Copperheads, Public Enemies; will you now believe what Americans 
have always assured you, thai Boston is the hotbed of treason? Your 
beloved Senator now informs you of the fact, and that Garrison was 
and is the leader of Traitors. 

As both of your honorable Senators have recently taken to quoting 
or referring to Scripture to support their positions, you will allow 
me the same liberty, and will then gee the reason why 1 have so often 
taken care to inform you that T voted (he Democratic ticket only as a 
protest against Radical outlawry. Before the war I never voted but 
twice in my life, although entitled to vote for nearly a quarter of n 
century. 

When the fathers settled America they found a race of red men, 
chiefly dwelling in tents, occupying its whole extent. The fathers 
brought their slaves (black men) with them or bought them from 
Europeans, until Boston went into the Negro trade ; several families 
in Sturbridge had their slaves. The question I would ask is this, has 
the first Prophecy since the flood been fulfilled by the white settlers in 
America? " God shall enlarge Japheth : he shall dwell in the U nts ofShem, 

he contemp- 
l Radica or that i 

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and the Law of tl 
lommandments, should I familiar ' rds with 

you, because with all enlii are considered the lav 

honor, the foundation one : ' human progress and security. One of 
them rends '-Thou shalt not steal." Docs it say that Garrison or his 
miserable barnacles may steal negroes? If you look into the Xvw 
Testament you find man- stealers are placed among the most abandoned 
of all men. 

Another of the thunders of Sinai read.-., in part, ••Remember the 
Sabbath day to keep it holy : six days shalt thou labor and do all thy 
work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, on that day 
thou shalt not do any work ; thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy 
manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that 
is within thy gates." 

Observe the peculiar construction of this law, and you notice the 
wife, as indicated in the tenth law, is omitted mention, for in a house- 
hold the man and wife are one flesh. The slave is placed next i 



sideration to the children of a man, and the hired stranger is placed 
after his cattle. Thy stranger certainly is not a visitor, who never is 
expected to perform labor. 

My reading of sacred or profane history from the earliest ages does 
not accord with your beloved Senator's assertion, that keeping the 
Commandments of God is a brutal, ignorant, degraded barbarism, nor 
can I consider it my duty, but a dastardly meanness, to be a busybody 
in other men's affairs, pry into American families to know who per- 
forms their labor, and upon what terms. 

That portion of the Constitution of the United States which was 
signed by George Washington contains not one single section that in 
any way conflicts with the great Commandments, and it may be safely 
assumed that American Laws once radiated from the Eternal Laws of 
God. 

Wilson went to school only one mouth in a year for eleven years. 
He may never have studied those grand God-given laws of honor, but 
he is careful to inform you that a dollar looks as large to him as a full 
moon, and that he never spent one until after he was of age. Gingerbread, 
peanuts, confectionary, firecrackers, the cripple, the sufferer, poverty and 
want, had no plea that could wring a dollar from the pocket of Henry 
Wilson for twenty-one years ! Suppose this Radical ruin goes ou, and 
laboring men have to bear all the expenses of supporting Garrison's 
barnacles, pay all of their bonds at maturity, will you be able to give 
3'our own sons and daughters each a yoke of oxen and six sheep when 
the}' arc twenty-one years of age ? He assures you he toiled from the 
time he was ten, until he was twenty -one, and that was all he got for 
eleven years of hard labor ! Who boarded and clothed the lad and 
gave him shelter, he does not say, but ho must have been prosperous 
and benevolent above the average of New England farmers, to be able 
and willing to do so well by Henry Wilson. Hear him : 

"On the farm on which I served an apprenticeship I have seen the 
best men who ever put scythe in grass working for from fifty cents to 
four shillings a day in the longest days in summer. Yesterday I visit- 
ed that farm. T asked the men who were there what they paid men in 
haying time last summer, and they said from two dollars to two and a 
half a day." 

Forty years ago one dollar was about the price a day for a mower in 
Stui'bridge ; but let us see what the mower could purchase for fifty 
cents. He could buy twenty-live cigars, better cigars than he could 
buy to-day for two dollars and a half; he could buy live pounds of 
of purer tobacco than he could get now for five dollars ; he could buy 
two galloiiH of ruin or whiskey, better than he can get to-day for three 
dollars. 



Are you grieving over the use of tobacco and mm ? His Excellency, 
President Grant, is setting your sons the example of extreme loyalty, 
by the use of many articles that are highly taxed to support Garrison's 
barnacles. Forty years ago pork and beef sold for about five cents a 
pound, Avhat is paid to-day you know best. Board in the country was 
from one dollar to a dollar and a half, including washing. 

You are all aware that the discovery of gold in California was fol- 
lowed by wonderful changes in prices for a time, and gave a fresh val- 
ue and impetus to industry implanted by God Himself. ''Six days 
shalt thou labor and do all thy work," a command you prefer to obey, 
rather than become a villianous thief, to steal a living from the careful 
earnings of }*our industrious neighbors. 

There appears to be no end to the sympathy your beloved Senator 
exercises himself with for the laboring man. Hear him : 

"My heart goes out to the working men of England and Ireland, of 
Germany and France, aye, and of Asia and Africa, too. A man is a 
man, no matter where he was born, or what blood courses through his 
A r eins. I believe that God made him and Christ died for him, and that 
he is destined to an immortal inheritance. I believe, too, in that com- 
prehensive policy that watches over the poor and lowly and takes care 
of the interest of all the world ; but, after all, I am for the Republic of 
the United States, one and undivisible, and the people of the United 
States, before any other country or any other people." 

This remarkable confession of faith from a man who is a know-noth- 
ing of fixed eternal principles, and has been mixed up with every 
shade of political charlatanry (except Democratic) that has sprung up 
since he was a boy, falls with the vehemence of a pile driver upon the 
heads of those whom he led by the nose in his dark lantern days, whou 
the right of suffrage was denied where it had been exercised for years. 
But while the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return, and 
he gives ycu another chance alongside of Mm, if 3*011 will only — 

"Trust yourselves, correct your own errors, move right onward 
abreast of the advancing currents of a progressive Republicanism. Look 
to your history, do not blur nor blot that immortal record. * * 
In the years to come, when the passions and prejudices of these days 
of conflict shall have sunk to rest with us, in the bright hereafter, the 
record of the last twelve years will be a brilliant chapter in the history 
of human progress." 

Does this remind you of that "good time coming in about sixty or at 
at most ninety days," so freely promised by Wm. H. Seward (another 
Garrison barnacle) when urging you to send more of your sons and 
substance to battle with your own brothers ? What better assurance 
does Wilson give you of a bright hereafter ? 

u We have a great debt to pay. We shall have taxation enough for 



many years. That burden, the legacy of the slave Democracy, will 
rest upon the labor of the nation for years to come." 

Now if you go back and search the record you will find tnat the 
South, who had bought so many slaves from New England dealers, 
found that labor bore too heavy burdens and they kicked against a 
system that is an infamous relic of barbarism, the cruel, despotic sys- 
tem of throwing the whole expense of Government upon its industry. 
The late inhuman war was entered into by Northern wealth for no 
other purpose but to stifle the Southern cry of FREE TRADE with all 
this world. Garrison and his barnacles might have continued to make 
Boston hideous with their writing and howling had the South consent- 
ed to longer indorse an exploded system that was continually robbing 
labor of its reward. They would yield to neither coaxing or threats, or 
promises of manufacturers, but still persisted that labor had the same 
undeniable right to buy goods in the cheapest market as the manufac- 
turer had to hire labor in the cheapest mai*ket. The idea of free trade 
is not European ; it is American. "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights" 
was once their battle cry ; all honor to the men who are working to 
drive every loafer from the receipt of customs in America. Southern 
capitalists, were anxious to be directly taxed for the support of Gov- 
ernment. We have the Atlantic and Pacific coast, a Northern and 
Southern boundary of such vast extent, it would take nearly our 
able-bodied population to prove: 

Honorable me have e. 

i /, that the quanl pouring in untry 

jes them seriously ; indi I ca 

is calculated to make tl 'I scoundrels of men. It 

icrhaps well enough to foster cotton and woolen manufacturers 
in their infancy, but many of the factories have pursued so base and 
niggardly a policy, thrown upon the market such shoddy, fading, shab- 
by goods, they are deservedly neglected. 

When the manufacturers of textile fabrics can vie with our produc- 
tion of iron and steel implements, produce articles superior to all the 
rest of the world of their kind, then they may deserve what they will 
not require — a tariff protection. Tools of iron and steel, made in this 
Town, are being shipped over all Europe, in spite of the heavy duties 
the manufacturer has to pay upon the raw material. Where the boots 
and shoes made in .Massachusetts will be worn out. in what part of the 
wide world, tlOOne can tell. Your beloved Senator has made his rec- 
ord al Washington, and that record gives the lie {■> all his fill' 

tencee in love of the laboring man. 

Nt t a man in the Senate has proved more inflexibly devoted to the 



devilish greed of capitalists, who would build u a wall of fire" around 
America that they might grind the faces of the poor to powder. Have 
you yet to learn that the desire to become rich gives a dollar the size 
of a full moon to a miser, and that the habits of youth are confirmed 
by age? It is not meanness that induces the rich man to hug his 
savings until the}' become a mountain of care, it is the habit of regard- 
ing dollars as more precious than country, lienor, eternal principles. 
Garrison, with England to back him with gold, could buy up plenty 
of such men as Wilson. Rich manufacturers in Boston, who count 
wealth by millions, are just, as greedy for more as Wilson was when 
he pocketed, his six full moon dollars for a month's labor. The young 
American just emerged from his minority is seldom a beggar to Con- 
. but the men whose wealth is enormous are tb ones who would 
•■ longress set a hideous incubus upon American stifle encr- 

td activity enses, and every other 

iclical dei i ' own proper burdens. 

: '. 1: ay taxes, and the oily- 

; . ! Wh ild believe his own 

l record, ■ tading his pious, loving, 
pressive Great Fails speech to the sons of toil in all countries, not 
excepting Africa ? Among all the things done by Radicals, so care- 
fully noted by your beloved Senator, 1 cannot find that Garrison's 
barnacles claim to have changed the color, the instincts, or the out- 
stincts of the Negroes. He leaves us to suppose the Negro remains 
as he was when God first created the race, with the exception of being- 
placed fairly and squarely into the same bed with all the sons of toil 
that Wilson piteously sympathizes with. What can lie more cruel 
than to use the Negro as a political blind? Wilson had to work once 
himself, but he does not say that he was obliged to sleep with a Negro 
at that time. Who are the sons of toil? Many men that neither Wilson 
or Wendell Phillips can either mislead or insult. 

Here is another Garrison barnacle, Phillips, Boston's Great Orator, 
who has promised if his life is spared ten years to do wonders for the 
sons of toil. He has got no farther towards the movement yet than 
to proclaim the Pennsylvania Central and the Boston and Albany 
Railroads the leading devils that afflict the laboring man. You would 
like to see the Boston and Albany "do it more" and build a branch 
from Palmer or Brookfield to Southbridge. I lis progress is slow, and 
you can safely join him in the hope he will not die in the Boston and 
Albany ; the stockholders might have to pay something for a niggardly, 
rich, contemptible traitor, who knows by study ami personal observa- 
tion the enormity of the load Congress has piled upon American energy. 



Gentlemen, you know I am not a partisan, and when your beloved 
Senator speaks of the thieves in the Democratic party he gratifies me : 
there is something of the true ring of American feeling in every sen- 
tence. I only regret he did not go deeper into the business and call 
the roll of every thief in it. You are safe in assuming that the howling, 
writing partisan on either side, whether in the Senate Chamber or any- 
where else, has his own axe to grind, and would have the hoodwinked 
voter turn his stone. At the same time, when you reflect that Garrison 
and his barnacles declared the Union and Constitution of the fathers 
was a covenant with death and an agreement with hell, and the flag 
we were born under a flaunting lie, that the}' established an under- 
ground raiboad for their own hireling thieves to run off the once recog- 
nized property of American citizens, bought of pious Boston dealers 
originally, you may have some charity for Americans, who had no 
other way of recording an earnest protest against England's intermed- 
dling with our affairs but by votiug the Democratic ticket. 

The advent of Garrison with his curious collection of barnacles has 
cost some money. Ten thousand million of dollars would hardly set- 
tle every expense, North and South, to say nothing of extremely valu- 
able human life lost in the terrible struggle. You have raised a shaft to 
commemorate your own slain, the brave men who fell a sacrifice in a 
strife as unnatural as that of Cain and Abel. You were told that the 
Avar was to preserve the Union and Constitution of the fathers, but 
you now find it was to put a Negro into your bed. 

As a contrast between bravery and cowardice, the monument 
would be more complete if you could obtain the pair of boots that your 
beloved Senator wore the day of the first battle of Bull Run and place 
them over the cap stone. It is whispered that Wilson made most re- 
markable time that day, his retreat might possibly have been as cele- 
brated as Xenophon's, had he shown particular concern for anybody 
but himself. Should he favor you with those boots, you could have 
those lines cut in the shaft of your monument : 

Those boots brought Wilson safe away ; 
He lives to fight another day. 
And to preserve them in the same position, can add : 
••The man who does these hoots displace 
May meet their owner, face to face." 
In order to retrieve Bomewhathis unenviable Bull Bun reputation, 
Wilson's regiment of warriors was raised, but the extreme ardor of 
their colonel lasted him only until he reached Washington. Your 
beloved Senator gives no names of those faithful and /cartes* men who 
pledged themselves to Garrison, the British Agent, but you can safely 
B sume that each of them was as cautious of approaching; the vicinity 



of death-dealing bullets in then own horrible war as Wilson was. The 
Philadelphia nomination gives you a man who is considered dangerous 
, to an enemy in his advance, and another whose reputation for brilliant 
exploits in retreat stands out boldly, reminding you of the celebrated 
warning of General Scott. ••Beware of Lee in advance, and Johnston 
in retreat." 

In order that you may understand the infernal Radical system, as it 
grinds down the industry of a country, I will take an article of Ameri- 
can manufacture, used in families of rich and poor, in one as much as 
the other. The rich man, whose income may be a thousand dollars a 
day. and the poor man, whose only riches consist of the little ones God 
has given him, and did not forget to furnish them with stomachs that 
rely upon the daily exertions of their parents to supply them with 
bread, meet here on common ground, their yearly tax is equal. 

It so happens the manufacturers of matches were not importers of 
woolen rags, old carpets and garments worn out in Europe, bought 
up and shipped to America, to be worked up in Boston shoddy mills 
for fresh clothing, in the land of the free and home of the brave, and 
your beloved Senator had no sympathy lor them. They sprang up 
lately, and had not piled up stupendous fortunes for Wilson to protect 
by his vote in Congress. He voted to put a stamp tax of our cenl 
upon every box of matches made in America. 

Before that exploit consumers bought matches for a cent a box ; 
now he [)ays live cents for two boxes, instead of getting five boxes for 
his money. Why is this? The manufacturer buys stamps from Gov- 
ernment, and if he fails to put one upon each box or bundle he musl 
be heavily fined and imprisoned, just as though it was a horrible crime 
for Americans to manufacture matches for your use in America ! It 
is as legitimate for the manufacturer to charge a profit upon that one 
cent stamp as it is to charge more for the matches than they cost him, 
therefore he adds fifty per cent lor profit. The receipts from this tax. 
that costs nothing to collect, reach nearly three millions of dollars, and 
that tax costs the consumers nearly four and a half millions ! 

But when you investigate' the operation of a tariff upon importations, 
the swindle of the American who eats bread produced by the 
sweat of his own face is more glaringly reprehensible. What can 
I add in explanation of this infernal system that has nut already 
been made familiar to you? To put one dollar into the treasury, 
the consumers must he swindled out of five dollars on a small 
list of ten articles, such as lead, copper, iron, woolen and 
cotton fabrics. You would not think of taxing every man in this 
Town precisely the same amount, tor your town expenses, but 



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you discriminate between the rich man and the poor man ; oo in 3'our 
County taxes ; so in your State taxes ; but there is a peculiarity in the 
surroundings of Washington now that prevents the assessment of each 
State according to population or wealth to raise a direct and proper 
tax that would cost not one cent to collect, and get rid of paid armies 
of partisan thieves and howlers for the dear people. In a recent case, 
tried in a neighboring State, it appears that ten thousand dollars a 
a year was assessed upon one factory as a corruption fund to influence 
favorable legislation, if one corporation draws ten thousand dollars 
a year from its profits to corrupt members of Congress, what is the 
amount annually raised in the United States for that purpose? Do 
you wonder that so many of Garrison's barnacles combine, plot and 
contrive to be nominated and elected to Congress? You have the 
lighl to vote, but when you go to the polls you find two or more sets 
of printed tickets, containing the names of some men that you may 
never have heard of before ; they are not your choice, you never nomi- 
ated them. The party lashes have been so |well applied that you 
"stand by the Republican colors" as your beloved Senator bids you. or 
you drop a protest as an American. 

No honorable American will ever tread in such devious ways as arc 
now required to obtain a nomination for a prominent office by either 
party, and you all know it. The best men in this State, as in all 
others, are silent spectators, "dumb dogs in Israel." while American 
feeling is dying out in the hands of base, bold, miserable, saleable 
politicians, the lowest class of American population, the scum ofGrod's 
earth. 

You need have no fears for the result of free trade with all tin ~ 
world upon your factory villages. There are not enough factories in 
the world. The whole system of manufacturing is changing all over 
Europe and Asia, where the spinning wheel and hand loom are becom- 
ing unknown. The Honorable Gen. B. F. Butler, another Garrison 
barnacle, who never had the public reputation of being a liar and thief 
until he became a Radical, stated in his Springfield speech that he was 
a manufacturer, and that the cost of Labor, making cloth, was but 12 
pei cent. That is, in making one dollar's worth of cloth only twelve 
cents were expended in labor, improved machinery does all the rest. 

American gold coin has no longer the same standard as European 
coin, it mi, debased nearly nine per cent. 'Die importer o\' foreign 
productions musl pay in gold or its equivalent on the European stand- 
ard, so that in reality this debasement of our coin is iii itself a pro- 
tective tariff of nine per cent., reducing the competition between 

American and foreign SfOOds to a cost in labor here of only three per 



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pent.! Can any other country manufacture cloth at three per cent 
for labor? When our debased ooin sells at a premium of fifteen per 
pent, the manufacturer is protected to the extent of twenty-lour per 
pent., enough in all conscience, [f manufacturing anything in Amer- 
ica cannot be made profitable with gold at par, let that enterprise be 
abandoned aud labor be employed at something that is profitable. 
That is the way with wide awake Americans. Labor is too valuable 
in Ajnerica to be squandered under an infamous management which 
requires Congressional taxation of every man, woman and child to 
support. 

America is rich in land and mines, but her poverty is want of Labor, 
U)e pry is for labor, labor everywhere, and must be for centuries to 
come, and the laborer is worthy of his hire. Your Honorable Senator 
Sumner has repeatedly called the attention of Congress to the duty of 
returning to specie payment-, and justly designates the present cur- 
rency as bits of pictured paper. -V poor California!] would blush for 
shame to hand his laborer such a miserable subterfuge for monej*. li 
!■ coutemptible meanness in men whose wealth has already become a 
torment to them, the rich beggars for Congressional vole-', to paj their 
laborers with .such lilthy, irredeemable stuff. But your beloved Sena- 
tor, whose heart goes out so far and spreads so thin, has no feeling 
for the men who he assure- must themselves redeem the trash by the 
sweat of their face. "It is a debt that must rest upon Labor for many 
years," he says. The precious metals are indestructible evidence- of 
other men's labor, they are rewards of labor and a recognized exchange 
of labor, all oyer the world. 

Here you will allow me to speak of my own observations in different 
sections of our common country. Like yourselves, all our brother 
Americans, everywhere, do not find the pursuit of happiness always a 
success, but they have their private anxieties, griefs and severe trials. 
You cannot place your finger upon any portion of your map of America 
that is settled and say it covers happier people than your own neigh- 
bors. 

You know my aversion to the late war, which I designated as mur- 
der of your own brothers that had never injured you in any way. Had 
you known them and they known you better, all this plotting of Great 
Britain could not have severed your mutual attachment. You all have 
the same unwavering energy, but the difference of climate and produc- 
tions leads American enterprise into different channels all over the vast 
extent of our beloved country. 

In a memorable tilt in Congress, over this infernal class legislation, 
picking out special interests to foster at the expense of laboring men 
all over America. Webster ami Ilavue broke lances in the Senate long 



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before Sumner and Wjjson were publicly known. Webster, Clay and 
Calhoun will be remembered as Americans, they differed in opinion, and 
we love to honor the American Senator who can give a good reason for 
bis own convictions, no matter if they clash with ours ; we like the in- 
dependent mind that will not be bound by a party caucus of plotting 
knaves. Webster, iu reply to Hayne, mentioned by name several his- 
toric South Carolinans, whose whole hearts he regarded as American, 
and denied that their virtues could be confined by State lines, they 
where the inheritance of Americans everywhere, and he claimed his full 
<hare of the glory their record had given to his country. 

Now mark the difference between two New Hampshire men, and ask 
yourselves if the race degenerates, just contrary to Darwin's theory. 

"In making them (the blacks) free it (the Radical party) struck 
down that proud, haughty and domineering aristocracy of the South, 
that held the doctrine — and proclaimed it, too — that 'capital should 
own labor," that the men who toiled for wages were "the mudsills of 
society ;' that the slavery of workingmen produced 'a class of gentle- 
men, who were the substitutes for an order of nobility.' These were 
the doctrines proclaimed in our ears for over forty years by the Cal- 
bouns, the McDullies, the Hammonds, the Rhetts, the Rullins. the 
Kit/hughes, the Herschells and -Johnsons, and men of that class, who laid 
down the doctrine boldly everywhere, that "slavery was the normal 
condition of laboring men, black and white.'" 

When Webster confessed his impotency to raise a mortal to the skies. 
it gratified him to believe he had no disposition to drag an angel down. 
Wilson covers up his tracks by mentioning family names; there are 
many Calhouns, McDuffies, &c. What has been said by any mehtber 
of all those families no one can tell. Bui again 1 assert it that the 
South has for many years been battling upon the side of labor against 
the rapacity of Northern manufacturing wealth. 

That "proud, haughty ami domineering aristocracy" were a body of 
plain, practical American farmers, ami the fathers selected several of 
Blich for Presidents, they had the capacity to make African labor valu- 
ible to our country after Northern men had apparently given over the 
task. Why are not your factories inn with Negro workmen? I have 
never beard of any advance in the price of his subjects by the King 
of Dahomey ; they remain in then "normal condition ;" the same old 
number of gallons of rum or pounds of tobacco will buy them in ship 
loads to-day. If yon think them qualified for Senators. Representa- 
tives and law-makers for white Americans, you must either suppose it 
lake-- less Capacity to run Congress or a Legislature than it does to 

work iii a cotton or shoddy mill, or give our Southern brothers credit 
for a superior \ tern of training that make the African equal to any 
, mere* ncv. 



That "mudsill" expression has served your beloved Senator for so 
many years, in his speech everywhere, it may be cruel to burst his 
favorite babble, but you will have to put it into your own pipe. Tt is 
imputed to Gov. Hammond, son of a prosperous laboring man who. I 
am informed, left this vicinity for South Carolina. Some of the name 
are still with us, and yon respect them, not only as excellent neiuh- 
bors, but for their manly habit of thinking for themselves. 

Now had this full-blooded New England man. who was honored in 
South Carolina, said "the men who toil for wages are the foundation 
stones of all good society," would it have been picked up by this mis- 
erable scavenger after badly digested or intemperate droppings from 
Americans who have been dead for years? Many buildings in Boston 
rest on sills driven into mud. Suppose every foolish expression we 
make is preserved to breed trouble between neighbors, what would be 
the state of society in this Town? How does the constant carrying 
of filth become a Senator of the United States? Does he deserve to 
wear the scirticoat of a despised, tattling, tea-table gossip? Have 
strong-minded women sunk so low as to accept his proffered champion- 
ship? 

••Have yon ever seen the wharves between 

That queer old thing, the mud machine? 

Whether the tide be ebb, or the tide be Hood. 

Tt brings up nothing but mud, mud, mud." 

When Garrison came from Baltimore, after his striped experience of 

Americans in defense of their slaves, and squatted in Boston, his mission 
was known to a few. He was saved from infuriated men through the 
evert ion of cool-headed prominent Boston ians, who relied upon the 
good sense of the people to counteract his efforts to break the Greal 
Republic into fragments. 

I know no editor in the United States who has done so much to in- 
form Americans of the objects of Great Britain in sending its emissa- 
ries here us the late James Gordon Bennett. A few years since he 
published something of the debate in the House of Lords :it the time 
it was voted to pay the planters in the British West Imlias for their 
slaves, and their congratulations that they had passed an net thai 
would prevent a war with the Greal Republic. They would make 
trouble enough here, by claiming to lie a more liberty-loving people 
than Democratic slave-holding Americans. Mr. Bennett also published 
the reports of special committees to the House of Lords ami Commons 
on the condition of Jamaica, about twenty years after emancipation, or 
a. review of those reports, to give his readers warning of what musl 
follow in America. Tt seems incredible that such men as Win. II. 
Seward, Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson, S. P. Chase, Henry Ward 



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Beecher, Horace preeley, Wm. C. Bryant, Gerritt Smith, and other 
prominent men who havejlmng as tenaciously to Garrison, can remain 
in ignorance of that horrible plot of Britain to make civil war in Amer- 
ica. American barnacles could pervert their advantage of an excellent 
education, join Garrison in educating a generation for his work, preach. 
pray, lecture, make stump speeches, talk all day and write all night, 
hut never, never can they wipe out of history the infamy of their das- 
tardly betrayal of their own brothers, to help Britain make a hell on 
earth of America, the soil that gave them birth. What place in the 
Temple of Fame will be assigned them by the patient Historian, who 
looks for the effects upon a Nation of disregarding the Commandments 
of God, and paying no heed to the testimony of Jesus Christ? 

As one of Garrison's preachers, preeminence must be given to the 
late Theodore Parker over all others, not excepting the irrepressible 
Beechers. Here I will help the barnacles to keep Beecher before the 
people Henry Ward Beecher preached a sermon, not a very wondertnl 
thing for him, but it was to help other Garrison barnacles sympathize 
with laboring men. He rather favored strikes, and in conclusion men- 
tioned there was danger of the laborer becoming proud. "They forget 
Jesus Christ was the son of a Carpenter." Now any one would >ii|> 
pose that a Beecher who had preached so long in his Brooklyn Syna- 
gogue, had his prayers to incomprehensibility published, as well as his 
sermons, could remember that we learn in the Gospel that Jesus 
Christ is SON OF GOD. Beecher reminds me of an obsti- 
male old mule that always found his master in a Negro team- 
ster. The old mule stopped the whole team just as they were 
about crossing a bridge. -'Here, now looks at him; wo'nt go. 
won't you? Feel proud do you? You forgets your father was a jackass. 
1 bets a quarter I drives dis yere team ober dat bridge." Waiting a 
moment and seeing a mule throw up his head the Negro exclaimed : 
"Ah, you takes dat bet, does you? now take dat," and he urged them 
across with his whip. A gentleman who witnessed and heard the whole 
rode up and asked the Negro how he could get paid the bet. "Ye see 
massa done gib dis chile two dollars to feed dis team, 1 takes de quar- 
ter out." 

Theodore Parker's life has been published. If his biographer has 
been careless of his reputation the fault is not mine in reminding you 
of the writings of the silent dead in other terms than that of praise. 

Parker was preaching one night; he stopped suddenly and cried, 
•'What are we doing here?" and rushed out, the congregation follow- 
ing him. That night an United States officer, a Mr. Batcheldcr. was 
killed iu Boston, and to this day I have not heard of an arrest being 
made. If any, how many living men are guilty of murder as accesso- 



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ries at, or after the fact, no one knows. Parker was the most expert 
and active barnacle Garrison ever had, and the idea of a "higher law" 
to help on the work of hate, abuse every American who lives outside 
of Garrison's Boston civilization, was probably his. Parker deter- 
mined to be judge of what is good and evil himself, measure the world 
by his standard, and became the most consummate hypocrite and subtle 
scheming plotter of modern times. How it was possible for any man 
of his extensive reading, studying the observation of so many emi- 
nent writers, knowing the infamy all thoughtful men attached to a 
crafty knave, wearing the cloak and mask of love and charity to scat- 
ter the seeds of hatred and revenge in a country like America, is a 
curious study for reading men. 

He says with Protestant Ministers the Bible is a fetish ; it is so with 
Catholic Priests likewise, only to them the Roman Catholic Church is 
the master fetish, the big thunder, while the Bible is but an inferior 
subservient idol. 

In his egotistic way, Parker attempts to prove the Bible fetish as it 
hindered him in every step of his ministry I That is just what "that 
old serpent called the Devil and Satan, that decievcth the whole world," 
would say, should he attempt to preach sectional hatred before intelli- 
gent Americans, who love their brothers wherever they have settled, 
in all its broad extent. Many wolves in sheep's clothing done this 
to all denominations, and now wonder why so little interest is 
taken in preaching ! Who but Christ and His Disciples can preach the 
the Gospel to an American who can read? 

Parker says he was advised not to preach against the popular belief 
in the Bible, because a few would understand and thank him, but the 
CHEAT VULGAR who hear imperfectly and at the best understand 
but little, would say "He finds fault in the Bible. * * Why, the 
man is an infidel." 

This singularly active Garrison barnacle makes an honest declara- 
tion : 'T know that 1 had thoroughly broken with the Ecclesiastical 
authority of Christendom — its God was not my God, nor its Scriptures 
my Word of God, nor its Christ my Savior. * * I knew I should 
be accounted the w r orst of men, ranked among triflers, mockers, infi- 
dels and athiests." And there we will leave him, in the earnest hope 
that his "honest confession is good for the soul." 

Gentlemen, I am not prepared to eudorse Parker's assertion that all 
Priests or Ministers, in all denominations, despise the Bible as fetish, 
yet, when you carefully study the sermon on the mount, and remember 
their public prayers in the Synagogues you build for them, and their 
willingness to pray in any place where expected, there are grounds for 



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supposing his statement more plausible than romantic. I have met 
with some Sunday speakers who appeared to be perfectly sincere in 
believing the Bible is the Word of God. To-day many men of rare ac- 
complishments, eminent in their chosen walk in life, distinguished among 
men. esteem the Bible as valuable only because it is the sole remains 
of Jewish Literature, while others regard the books as a proline source 
of human misery, perhaps condemning the Bible for the hypocrisy 
tlicv find in unexpected quarters. I have met men in America who 
sincerely think there is no other existence but this present life, and 
they appear to be confirmed by any rascality discovered in those who 
profess to believe in the immortality of the soul ; indeed America can 
boast of having a wonderful variety of curious speculations upon spir- 
itual affairs, all of which is carefully covered by one word — Religion. 

Contrary to popular belief the Bible is a political book, everywhere 
teaching man that GOD is, and should be, regarded as King of His 
own creation. We learn, too, by solid proof,that JESUS CHRIST is High 
Priest forever, and an honest, truthful man is His noblest work, so far 
as humanity has discovered. The Bible does not wrestle against flesh 
and blood, but against Principalities, Powers, Rulers in darkness, and 
all Spiritual wickedness in high places. Men who read can easily dis- 
cover why the fathers of our history would bow the knee to no earthly 
king, or recognize by American law any form of worship that could 
mm ilily conflict with the sermon on the mount. Peter, in his keys ol 
I lie kingdom, says the spirit of Christ inspired all the Prophets. In- 
deed Christ is the only name given under heaven whereby man can be 
aved. Those, therefore, who do believe in the immortality of the 
spirit annimating the bodies of men, which are built up of the dust of 
this earth as in the beginning, and return to earth again as we see 
every day, know of no other faith in God our King to cling to. The 
invisible power creating a Union of Worlds, whether ''Jehovah. "Jove," 
or "Lord," or any other name known among men, has been a kind 
Father to Americans. While we heeded his Commandments our pros- 
perity was unprecedented. 

Garrison's barnacles have preached and prayed to you almost every 
pecies of rascality known undei the sun. An Editor is a preacher, 
a Lecturer is a preacher. You know barnacles for man-stealers ; you 
have encouraged your children t<> sing "Glory hallelujah" in praise of 
their sainted John Brown, a man guilty of many autrocious murders, a 
man furnished with a Constitution as President of America! a most 
consummate traitor and felon. Some of you have let that infamous 
sheet, tin' New York Tribune, into your houses to preach free love or 
mi cegenation, adding adultery and fornication to barnacle teaching, to 



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your daughters ! Not a man of you ever despised party .spirit more 
heartily than I do, and yet, look back aud count up what this party 
spirit, this sectional hatred, this heedlessness of the great Command- 
ments, has cost us. all ! What a reproach upon I he whole system of 
education — the name of Christian. 

Christ condensed the law. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with 
all thy heart, soul and strength," but we might not know precisely how 
to do this had not John written, -'And this is love, that we keep his 
Commandments." Your beloved Senator's interpretation of the other 
law, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,'' is unique, lie docs 
not discover how a Democrat dare ask the blessing of God. He evi- 
dently desires you shall help him hate a Democrat, if he is your neigh- 
bor. How like another II. W., Holy Willie : 

■•Lord, mind Gawn Hamilton's deserts. 
He drinks, and swears and plays at carts, 
Yet has sae money takin' arts 

Wi' great and sina' 
from (iod's aiij priests the people's hearts 

lie steals awa. 

An' whan we chastened him therefor. 
Thou kens how lie bred sick and splore 
As set the world in a roar 

laughin' at us ; 
Curse thou his baskel and his store, 

Kail and potatoes." 

I >onicwha1 singular that a inau so familiar with the Philosophy 
and Statesmanship of the Ages and the Paw of the Living God should 
that modern Democracy came into power under General Jack- 
son. The Whigs of that day were as staunch Democrats as Jackson 
ever was ; their leaders were pointed with that infernal toadyism to 
Northern manufacturing wealth that wanted to throw the burdens of 
( lovernmentupon the laboring man ; more than that, raise an immense 
revenue to divide among the Stales. Some leading Democrats coun- 
selled resistance to such an inhuman, odious tariff, and Jackson, the 
Democrat, threatened to hang them. Democracy evidently means 
something that Holy Willie neglected to study. 

When the .lews wanted a man lor their King, Samuel was imstructed 
to tell them what kind of a concern a human king was. Here Ameri- 
cans learn to be Democrats, for Democracy is equal and just laws for 
every man. When the Jewish concern was captured by the Assyrian, 
the slave Daniel told that proud monarch God sets over the kingdom 
of the world the basest of men: here Americans learn to he Demo- 
crats, respect the Commandments of God, and hiave some feeling for 
their brother Americans everywhere 



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When that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth 
the whole world, tempted Jesus Christ with the offer of the king- 
dom of the world if he would fall down and worship him, renewing 
Daniel's declaration, that they were given to the devil to give to those 
men chosen by himself. Christ turned his back upon the ofler : "Get 
thee behind me Satan, for it is written thou shalt love the Lord thy 
Cod and Him only shalt thou serve." Here in the record of a wonder- 
ful Idea, gain the fathers of American history learned to be Democrats. 
despise class legislation, quit any policy that tended to make the rich 
richer at the criminal act of making the poor poorer. For your be- 
loved Senator to convict and convert Americans who know all these 
things in twelve years, and have them bow the knee a miserable barna- 
cle to Garrison, a British Agent in America, is indeed a Herculean 
i ask. Wilson thinks it will take that time to gain the Radical bright 
hereafter. Years ago Seward prophesied it would take sixty or ninety 
days to reach the glorious future, the good time coming. This Radi- 
cal Jordan appears a hard road to travel, the end of the journey to 
grow in distance, to lend enchantment to the view. 

I think it highly probable the Democrats of this Town can stand 
this Radical ruin and nonsense about as long as the friends of your two 
Senators can. Barnacle higher law, moral ideas, superior piety, tho*e 
who like can fatten upon. The Commandments of God and testimony 
of Jesus bids Americans shun it as we would the song of the Syren. 

Men cling to party ; neither Republican or Democratic signifies auy- 
thing,with the mass of mankind, the distinction is only in choosing a 
(tarty name ; in reality every Republican of principle is a firm Demo- 
crat, as eveiy American is a sincere Republican. 

One more extract from this electioneering document: 

"I am for taking care of our own interests, and not allowing the im- 
porting houses of Englishmen, or Frenchmen, or Germans, to control 
i he financial or business affairs of the people of the United States, nor 
io direct the policy of the United States. [ think we are old enough 
and large enough to take care of ourselves." 

Tin- American knows foreigners who have come among us to stay 
only as friends and brothers. Some German, French, Spanish, Eng- 
lish, [rish or Scotch mercantile houses have been managed with marked 
ability and sterling integrity. No one should consider it derogatory 
for an American merchant to compare notes with all leading merchants. 
it'ding financial affairs, when everything is running to waste in the 
hands of America's enemies. Suppose yon should find gold quoted at 
LOO, and upon Looking at quotation of dried codfish in St. Domingo, 
find by calculation thai you eon id make ten per cent, upon a cargo senl 
there. Von charter a ship, buy your fish and risk the venture, have 



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everything done up ill a day, ordering the return paymenl in specie. 
To-morrow you hear the amiable wife of the Presidenl has been engag- 
ed in a gold speculation with .lames Fisk, Jr., and when the bubble 
bursts the premium on gold runs down rapidly. Leaving a forty per 
cent, loss staring you in the face. Does your loyally consisl in say- 
ing nothing to others about a ruinous condition of affairs ilia: disgrace 
every man in America except Garrison and his barnacles? 

If Wilson really thinks we are old enough and large enough to take 
care of ourselves why is he so absurdly anxious to have Greal Britain, 
through Garrison and his barnacles, take care of us? It is fortunate 
your beloved Senator went to England where he met men who could tell 
the truth, probably one of the Host arts" with Garrison's barnacles. 
Had he ventured there during the war. without any letters of introduc- 
tion from Garrison, he would have found Englishmen better posted 
upon American unpleasantness than New England people generally 
are. with all their Preachers, Teachers, Editors, Politicians, Lecturers. 
and every rotton staff they lean upon for information. 

"You beat us in two wars, because we had other enemies to attend 
to, but now we have got you eating each other up like Kilkenny cats. 
was the brilliant tribute Englishmen paid to the genius of Garrison 
and his barnacles during the war, and Americans traveling in England 
were forced to listen to that boastful, stinging reproach ; they are no1 
the kind of men to forget it either, in sixty or ninety days, or twelve 
years. 

Before his election, His Excellency President Grant fully and re- 
peatedly endorsed the proposed amendment to the Constitution, that 
no President should be eligible for a second term. It may he consid- 
ered neither becoming or proper for an American to write unkindly of 
the Chief Magistrate, yet a candidate for office does not escape censure. 

A man graduating at West Point learns many things not commonly 
taught in other seminaries of learning, things that should never be 
forgotten, especially in an emergency where his decision may bring 
contempt upon an army, the subordinate officers of that army, and 
the institution that educated them. 

Bay Vire, near Lanesville, Mass., Aug. 25, 1867. 
My Dear Sir : — I have read your letter to Mr. Smith on the pro- 
posed nomination of Grant with much interest. Its criticisms on 
Grant's career are just ; but what will }'Ou do? You cannot get it or 
anything else concerning Grant that is not lauditory published^ and 
why? Because both sides are courting him for the Presidency — and 
so the truth must not be told. We are, I fear, to try the experiment 
again that we did with Johnson, /. »., nominate a man for supposed 
availibility, without knowing his principle's or litne^s. Grant's election 
would be a misfortune, because il would put in a man wilhout a head 



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or heart: indifferenl to human suffering aiicl impotent to govern. 

T am, yours truly, 

Benj. F. Butler. 
W. Jones, Neenah, Wis. 

This letter informs von of several important matters. The election 
took place November, 1868. You notice politicians of both parties 
were feeling round for a candidate fifteen months before. Politicians 
are the men looking round for available candidates; they nominate 
and yon vote : they Mow the bellows and you strike all the heavy 
blows. As for the barnacle complaint that Grant is impotent to gov- 
ern, brought againsl him by Senator Sumner, as an expi'essiou of 
the late Secretary Stanton, and here again by Gen. Butler, it is all 
nonsense. God forbid that Americans can ever be sunk so low a? t< 
want a President to govern them. His exhalted "Mice is a very differ- 
ent affair; Constitutional laws should govern in America, and upon 
laws passed by Congress the Presidenl can only exercise n negative 
power. Every State has a Governor, if ii is fortnnati i di to 
have an aprighl man in office. 

Von will remember Gen. Butler was once appointed a Commissionci 
for the exchange of prisoners with the attempted Confederacy. Thai 
exchange was suddenly stopped. We were hearing of the horrors of 
Libby Prison and Andersonville : the suffering of gallant soldiers in 
horrible places; but who among yon knew that Grant signed the order 
to exchange no more prisoners? [t seems almost incredible, but Granl 
mus1 bear the weighl of all the monstrous, inhuman, useless loss of 
most valuable American life, until he explains his own orders. How 
true it is that man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands 
mourn. Thai the South were in earnest in all they said of their ina- 
bility to care properly for Northern soldiers, the wounded, and the 
brave men taken and confined by them, proved to be shorl of the 
truth when t lie war was over. 

Some general- risked their own reputation by sending surgical in- 
struments, disinfectants, and perhaps the contents of their whole 
medical chests, after brave soldiers, in tin- hands of an enemy, to 

whom the outride world was a sealed ' k. The war had reached 

gigantic proportions. The second highest officer in the attempted 
Confederacy was sent on a mission of mercy, to plead for Grant's own 
soldiers in their hands, bul all in vain! Can s*ou wonder thai Gen. 
Butler brands Granl as a man without a head. r\r heart, indifferent to 
human suffering t 

When the war was over, and the eondition of the South wa mad< 
known to the merchants of New l'ork, ihe\ called a meeting to devi i 
measures for the prompl relief of starving men and women. However 



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misguided, thej were brother Americans, AND WERE CONQUERED 
ONLY BY COD HIMSELF! Had He given the South abundanl 
harvests, no man can tell how long thai terrible struggle between 
Americans would have lasted. 

At thai meeting of New York merchants two of Garrison's barna- 
cles, Horace Greeley and Henry Ward Beecher, made themselves con- 
spicuous, to remind the meeting of Libby Prison and Anclersonville. 
It is highly probable that ji<> two men in America knew better than 
'they did, why those prisoners were nol relieved through exchange. 

All over this world, America is known as the land of Bibles, Im- 
manners land. Missionaries with Bibles arc scut out from it to con 
■vcri heathen! Wha1 greater enormity can they teach heathen than .-i 
refusal to exchange prisoners? The heaviest charge broughl against 
prophesied man. Lucifer, who sides with the North, is his not 
opening the house of his prisoners, lor which inhumanity, destruction 
reach even to his son and nephew. 

ill.- devil controls the kingdoms of this world ; he is the AssjTian 
of Scripture, --and the stretching oul of his wings --hall fill the breadth 
of iii\ land, O Immanuel" ; hut at thai time a Confederacy would be 
attempted, "say ye not ; i Confederacy to all them to whom this people 
say A Confederacy, neither fear ye their fear, or he afraid." At thai 
lime, the New Testament Prophesy would he referred to or opened, 
••hind up the testimony, geal the Law among my Disciples.*' At ilia! 
time, there musl he spiritualists, "and when they shall say unto you 
seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep 
ami mutter, should not a PEOPLE seek unto their God? For the liv- 
ing to the dead? To the Law and to the Testimony, if they speak 
nol according to this word it is because there is no light in them." 
At that time there must lie second adventists, ••ami I will w;iit upon 
the Lord that hideth himself from the house of Jacob, and I will look 
for him." lint who can fathom the want, the famine, and prophesied 
trouble, even despair of those who attempt to establish t lie Confeder- 
acy in I mmanuel's land ! 

Chrisi had opened the eyes of His disciples that they might under- 
stand the Scriptures. John, in speaking of these da3 r s, writes, "Be- 
loved, fay the spirits ; every spirit thai confesseth Jesus Chrisi iscome 

in the flesh is of Cud !" 

W dial care for Americans, to preserve their faith in God, through 
the terrible anguish of a horrid war! A war in which the conquerors 

-hould reap, no honors. ■•This is :i people robbed and spoiled ; lhe\ 
are all of them snared in hole-- and they are hid in prison houses, the;j 
are ; i prey and none dclhereth. for a spoil and none sayeth, restore. 

Who among vou will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hearfor 



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the time to come? Who gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the rob- 
bers? Did not the Lord? Ho against whom we have sinned? for 
they would not walk in His ways neither were they obedient to Hi< 
law, therefore He hath poured upon him the fury of His anger and the 
strength of battle, and it hath set him on fire round about, yet ho 
knew not. and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. * * * * 
This people I have formed for Myself; they shall show forth My 
praise. * * * Thy first father hath sinned and thy teachers 

have transgressed against Me, therefore I have profaned the Princes 
of the Sanctuary and have given Jacob to the curse 1 and Israel to re- 
proaches." 

In this prophecy. Ho speaks of His Ancient People, just as you do 
in referring to the Jews. 

If you regard v'our Bible as some curionsold concern of someother 
generation, yours had better be burned up ; some old volume of Gree- 
ley's Tribune will find some articles in its columns were written with 
fascinating pens. The fathers of our history regarded each man in 
America as an independent creation individually responsible to "Our 
Father," not to such men as Garrison, Grant or Creole}-, and were 
careful not to pass a law that would compel an American to break His 
Commandments. Falling into the arms of Garrison and his barnacles, 
how is it with our Jerusalem, the Capital of our country? Can buz- 
zards honor eagle's nests? 

"How is the faithful city become a harlot! It was full of judg- 
ment ; righteousness lodged in it ; but now, murderers. Thy silver 
has become dross, thy wine mixed with water. Thy Princes are re- 
bellious and companions of theives, every one loveth gifts and follow- 
cth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause 
of the widow come unto them." 

This is the boasted land Of Bibles, synagogues, Sunday schools, 

school houses, colleges ! The whole world is called upon to witness 

its degradation. 

••Hear, O Heavens, and give ear, Earth, for tin' Lord hath spoken. 
I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against 

Me. The on knowcth his owner and the ass his master's crib. Israel 

doth not know. My people do not consider. 

••Ah. sinful Nation, a people laden with iniquity : a seed of evil 
Joeis. children that are corruption: they have forsaken the Lord, they 
have provoked the Holy One ol Israel to anger, they are gone away 
backward. ' ' Your country is desolate, your cities are 

burned with lire, your land, strangers devour it in your presence, ami 
it is desolate as overthrown by strangers!" 

i lie manufacturing interesl in the North has grown to considerable 



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proportions, but there tire other unprotected enterprises that absorb 
more capital. The rich man who receives his dividends from machin- 
ery producing articles inside a tariff, loves to hear of a smuggler be- 
ing punished. The smuggler tried to evade paying the very duty the 
manufacturer never thinks of paying. In these days he can buy up a 
Congress, and make money, setting a trap for the adventurous im- 
porter. The idea of free trade with all this world frightens these cor- 
morants just as the power loom frightened the weaver, the railroad 
frightened the teamster and stage driver, the sewing machine the tail- 
ors and seamstresses. Yet labor advances steadily in value, as new 
mines and richer treasures are discovered. 

The mowing machine, tedder, and horse rake has not depressed the 
price of labor in hay-fields, or the reaper reduced the pay of the har- 
vesters. 

Look upon the map, and you notice the old City of Jerusalem, oc- 
cupied a favorable position for exchanging the productions of Asia 
with those of Europe. Baelbec and Palmyra in ruins attest the pros- 
perity of Judea when it could command the trade between those divi- 
sions of the world. With free trade with all this world what can 
America do now? How long will America be blind to what God ha- 
•lone for Immanuel's land? 

Who are the sons of toil? Who are the men that Garrison's barn- 
acles are trying to sympathize with? Who are the men to whom God 
>ays, "Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work." Who can look 
upon America and not know? God asks. "Cans't thou send light- 
nings?" The American laborer can look up like a man. and answer. 
••Yes, Father," over the land and under the sea, they answer, '-'Here 
we are." "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?" •-Yes. 
Father, and found the snows of unknown ages cover tropical plants 
and beasts. 

"Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail which 1 have reserved 
against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?" Isaiah 
writing two thousand five hundred years ago, says, "every battle of the 
warrior is with confused noise and garments rolled in Mood, hut this 
shall be with burning and fuel of fire," this burning powder rained Lead 
and iron like hail in Immanuel's land. The stone, the arrow, the dart. 
and spear, and battle axe belong to the past. 

Gentlemen, Americans arc apt to boast of their inventions, but will 
you consider God's promise to man that knowledge shall be increased? 
How has this promise been fulfilled since the discovery of a new world 
and the establishment of Immanuers land? The inventor seeks posi- 
tive knowledge, and God is truth! I tell you the Bible is a political 
book, the advice of a Father to His sons and His daughters, in their 



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private life, but for the patriot and statesman there is nothing known 
to humanity that compares with it in expansive grandeur and (rust in 
God our King to educate His .people through the great Commandments, 
and tin- testimony in the books that man is surrounded by invisible 
witnesses and power. The whole energy and life of this nation rests 
upon the command, "Six days ghalt thou labor and do all thy work," 
and in the short space pf a century what* have not Americans accom- 
plished, aided in their stupendous work by so much labor-saving ma- 
chinery. Capital has never accummulated faster in America than Lo 
answer the continued demand from enterprising labor for its use- 
Why are Garrison's barnacles pointing to the Astors, Vanderbilts 
and Stewarts of New York? Why not mention the crowds of Boston 
men of wealth, as the real enemies of labor, friends of those oppres- 
sive, inhuman, infinitely worse than slavish laws your two Senators 
vote for? I know ol no three men in the United States that labor 
more zealously than Astor, Yanderbilt and Stewart. They are the 
true sons of toil for your beloved Senator to sympathize with; they 
are always eager Per more, and Wilson, when honest, worked to get 
dollars himself. The Philadelphia nomination is exactly contrary to 
American experience. A man without head or heart, insensible to 
human suffering is not wanted now. No one hereafter should be 
requested to serve two terms as President. The Cincinnati nomina- 
tibn is'a fossilized Garrison barnacle, who has done more dirty work 
for Garrison, to disgrace his own mother country and her true sons, 
than any editor of any prominent paper. No man can be entirely 
vile; he may have amiable traits, and yet asau editor prefer to appear 
insensible to the value of truth to his brother Americans, lb 
Lies and abuse will sell in the uewspaper market can any honorable 
editor desire' to' find cbnstaril abuse of earnest Americans, through u 
long editorial career, the road to the chair of Washington? If 
Greeley has been honest, you cannot objeel to his remaining honest, 
and cling to Garrison still, to print the Sag of the father- a Haunting 
lie, a viper, to' publicly Bting the bosom of the mother country thai 
warmed him. 

His endorsement by the Baltimore Convention amounts to nothing. 
It is well understood thai the Liberal Republicans were heartily 
ashamed of their own work, before the Baltimore Convention met. 
Politicians Of all prominent parlies have made their nominations and 
can find only Grant and Greeley, among forty million Americans, 
worthy to be President. Isaiah asks, "Why should ye lie stricken an\ 
iriore? Ve will revolt more and more, the whole head is sick and the 

whole heart faint. I'loin the sole of the fool even unto the head. 

there is no soundnc - in it. hut wound- and bruises, and putrifying 



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sores, they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither molified 
with ointment." There is a still, small voice, always appealing to the 
true American, "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love- 
one another." 

Gentlemen, you know me for an invalid and afflicted man. I have 
felt the warmth of your sympathy in my distress. You have given 
me every good reason to think that }'ou and your neighboring towns 
are misrepresented as bigots, egotists, and most desperate haters be- 
fore other States of America. I can find no active cause now why out- 
siders living i 11 this town, should hate an outsider who lives south or 
west ; a Jew hate a Jew because he lives upon the banks of the Rio 
Grande; a Catholic hate a Catholic who lives upon the shores of the 
Sacramento, or you hate to the knife every living man in America, 
whose ancestors did not arrive in the Mayflower and land on 
Plymouth Rock. 

Your beloved Senator pleads with you to help him hate about twelve 
years longer, ''when the passions and prejudices of these days of con- 
flict shall have sunk to rest in the bright hereafter." Hut he does not 
consider that the Word of God asks him now, and every barnacle 
Garrison, the British agent, has collected in America, "show the 
things that are to come hereafter, that We may know that ye are gods, 
yea, do good or do evil that we may be dismayed and behold it to- 
gether. Behold ! ye are of nothing and your work of naught, an 
abomination is he that chooseth you !" You also know me for an 
American, who breasts the waves of popular fury, and cannot be sur- 
prised if T attempt to reach that bright hereafter now, by blocking the 
political machinery of all the sneaking, mean, contemptible, lying, 
thieving enemies of peace and good will in America, in all parties. 

Was there ever a better time for all who really love America to burst 
their slavish party fetters, show that their hands are free to encourage 
and help their brother Americans evervwhere. cheer them with their 
votes, to go on with all their six-day labors for a manly dependence 
on God alone? Who but low. dirty, office-seeking partisans prevent 
it? Have you authorized any slippery wire-puller to pledge your vote 
in convention, or are you a t\-o^ man? The fathers waged a seven and 
three are ten years war with Britain. We enjoy now the lull of a tem- 
pest, and it is thrown upon Americans themselves to choose what the 
end shall be. Miserable politicians who live or expect to live u{>on the 
sweat of your own faces are now preparing to stump America. Some 
may beg of you in silvered streams of eloquence, even with tears in their 
eyes, to save yourselves for God's sake, and your country for your 
children's sake, by voting for Grant. Others may assure you with out- 
stretched anus and upturned eye- that such men as Grant are. much 



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known and great only by newspaper editors, and the great editor, 
Greeley, who used his utmost endeavors to make the astounding repu- 
tation of Grant, must be a greater man than Grant, and a far better 
savior, because a more liberal Republican, endorsed by a whole army 
of hungry political Democrats. Can you consider me wild enough to 
vote for either of those men for your President ? 

Sinner as I am I will make my own nominations, and most cordially 
invite the very few sinners in my native Town, and all in America, 
to join me in the attempt to elect the men. 

Millions upon millions of voters all over America are situated pre- 
cisely as you are, neither wanting or expecting national office ; toiling 
as you are, and in remembrance of blight, mildew, armies of destruc- 
tive insects that counteract every effort of man to furnish food, know- 
ing as you do that no boasted science or art of man can feed us, unless 
God furnishes the material, humbly implore Him as you do, ik Give us 
this day our daily bread." What have such men to do with partisan 
fury? Sincerely believing that New England people are, and have 
been, grossly misrepresented before America by her mere politicians, 
I nominate an ever active son of toil, a Statesman, the Honorable 
George S. Hillard of Boston, Mass., for President. I feel assured this 
will gratify you, because you know him. I nominate the Honorable 
Milton S. Latham of San Francisco, California, for Vice President. 
You will not suppose I nominate those distinguished men thinking 
they may indulge in my own opinions advanced in this document. 1 
nominate them believing they have their own God-given brains to 
think for themselves upon all public affairs, and that no man's views, 
influence or money can bribe either of them to a public act that is con- 
trary to their own sense of honor and justice. If this is a correct esti- 
mate of the character <>f those Americans what need can there he of 
any other platform for them to stand npon ? Whole-souled Americana 
are the men who are wanted now. In conclusion may I be excused it' 
I intimate confidentially that the vole of any saint for the sinner's ticket 
will be piously received, religonsly counted, and not rejected as either 
smuggled or contraband. I have the honor to he, 

JACOB AUGTUSTUS CORKY. 
Sturbridge, August. 1872. 



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